All
the action, no bruises. Your chance to be an NHL Ice
Hockey coach from the comfort of your own home. Play-by-mail or play-by-email -
whichever you prefer.

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Coach your own NHL club from the comfort of your own home

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Compete in a league against other coaches throughout the world

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Play by Internet or Play by Mail - your choice

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Play through full regular season and playoffs

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Sign players, draft players, choose lineups and deal with injuries

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The ultimate in NHL simulation games, running all year round

Welcome
to Slapshot and to Ab Initio Games. Slapshot is our simulation of NHL Ice
Hockey. A game which you play over the Internet, or by mail if you prefer,
against other players throughout the world. You
make all of your decisions at home, send them to us via a special website or by
mail and
once the games are run, we send you back all of the results and information you
need.

In
Slapshot you are the coach and manager of an NHL club, taking your team through
the regular season and then the playoffs, trying to reach and win the Stanley
Cup.

In
Slapshot we try to make the game work the same way as in real life, with
realistic decisions to be made about team management. The choices you make are
the same as you’d have to make in real life. Sometimes you’ll have to make
tough decisions, whether to sign better players, or develop your stadium and
income sources to improve your future finances.

In
addition to the management decisions about signing and cutting players you’ve
also got to shuffle your lineups from game to game. You’ve injuries to contend
with, as well as players losing form. You have to decide which players to play
in which lines together, who to use in power-play situations and in short-handed
situations. You also have to decide how regularly you can play your star
goaltender and when you need to rest him.

Slapshot
is a management game. Rather than concentrating on the "game-day"
coaching aspect the focus of the game is on longer-term roster building, though
there is still a significant element of control over game-day decisions.

Slapshot
runs all year round - the game isn't a "fantasy game" based on the
performances of real life players in the NHL - it's a simulation of how real
life Hockey works - much more involved, and we think, much more fun. Turns are
normally run every two weeks to give you plenty of time for planning and
analysis.